How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School

Kathryne M. Young (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2018 | New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
9780804799768 (ISBN)

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Each year, over 40,000 new students enter America's law schools. Each new crop experiences startlingly high rates of depression, anxiety, fatigue, and dissatisfaction. Kathryne M. Young was one of those disgruntled law students. After finishing law school (and a PhD), she set out to learn more about the law school experience and how to improve it for future students. Young conducted one of the most ambitious studies of law students ever undertaken, charting the experiences of over 1000 law students from over 100 different law schools, along with hundreds of alumni, dropouts, law professors, and more.

How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School is smart, compelling, and highly readable. Combining her own observations and experiences with the results of her study and the latest sociological research on law schools, Young offers a very different take from previous books about law school survival. Instead of assuming her readers should all aspire to law-review-and-big-firm notions of success, Young teaches students how to approach law school on their own terms: how to tune out the drumbeat of oppressive expectations and conventional wisdom to create a new breed of law school experience altogether.

Young provides readers with practical tools for finding focus, happiness, and a sense of purpose while facing the seemingly endless onslaught of problems law school presents daily. This book is an indispensable companion for today's law students, prospective law students, and anyone who cares about making law students' lives better. Bursting with warmth, realism, and a touch of firebrand wit, How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School equips law students with much-needed wisdom for thriving during those three crucial years.

Kathryne M. Young is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she teaches courses on social psychology, criminal procedure, and sociology of law. Young holds a JD from Stanford Law School, a PhD from Stanford University, and an MFA from Oregon State University. She and her wife live in Northampton, MA.

Introduction: Why I Wrote This Book
1. You Are Not Alone
2. You Are Good Enough to Be Here
3. Why Are You Here?
4. Understanding the Storm
5. Should You Drop Out?
6. Don't Just Follow the Crowd
7. Identity Matters
8. A Law School State of Mind
9. The Art of Alleviating Stress
10. Finances and Physicalities
11. Mental Well-Being
12. Peers
13. Professors and Law School Administrators
14. Relationships (Mostly) Outside of Law School
15. Choosing Courses
16. Surviving (Thriving?) in Class
17. Reading and Outlining
18. Exams and Grades
19. Designing Your Post–Law School Life
Conclusion: Becoming Yourself

Erscheinungsdatum	01.08.2018
Zusatzinfo	4 tables
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-13	9780804799768 / 9780804799768
Zustand	Neuware